Garment-form.



E. T. PALMENBERG.

GARMENT FORM.

APPLICATION FILED $313.4, 1910.

Patented June 7, 1910.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. February 4, 1910'.

Patented J nne 7, 1910. Serial No. 542,047.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL THEODORE PAL- MENBERG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Garment-Form, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to garment forms such as are used in stores, show windows, dressmakers establishments and the like, to display a garment to advantage.

The object of the invention is to provide certain new and useful improvements in garment forms, whereby the body of the form can be readily adjusted to assume a desired pose and thus display the garment to the fullest advantage.

For the purpose mentioned use is made of a device under convenient control of the operator and interposed between the stand and the body, which latter is pivoted 011 the stand, to allow the operator to adjust the body by the use of the said device, to assume an erect or a tilted position and to hold the body in this position.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the garment form; Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional side elevation of the adjusting device; Fig. 3 is a rear end elevation of the same; and Fig. 4 is a sectional plan view of the garment form on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

The body A of the garment form may be of any approved construction, and is mounted to swing transversely on a stand B, and an adjusting device C is used to allow an operator to swing the body A into a desired posing position and to hold it therein. As shown, the body A of the form consists of an upper portion A, of an outline conforming to the shape of the upper portion of the human body, and from the bottom of the portion A extends a skeleton frame approximately tubular, for supporting the lower portion of the garment. The bottom A of the upper portion A is provided at its under side with lugs D, carrying a pivot E held in a head B attached to a sleeve or tube B telescoping on a post B erected on the base B of the stand B. A set screw B serves to fasten the sleeve B in position on the post B*, it being understood that when the set screw B is unscrewed, the sleeve B can be raised or lowered on the post B to support the body A the desired distance above the floor on which the stand B is located. A collar F is adjustably secured on the post B*, by the use of a set screw F, so that when the user of the garment form unscrews the screw B, the body A with the sleeve B can drop until the lower end of the sleeve B is seated on the collar F, so that the bottom of the skeleton frame A is not liable to come into con tact with the base B to be injured, as is so frequently the case with forms as heretofore constructed.

The device C consists of a screw rod C screwing in a nut B forming part of the head B, and the lower end of the screw rod G is provided with a handle C under the control of thevoperator, for screwing the screw rod C up or down in the fixed nut B The upper end C of the screw rod 0 is reduced, and is mounted to turn in an arm C pivoted on lugs D held on the under side of the body A so that when the screw rod 0 is screwed up or down, then a swinging motion in a transverse direction is given to the body A. When the screw rod O is screwed upward, then the upper portion A of the body A is tilted forwardly, while the lower portion is correspondingly moved rearwardly, thus permitting the operator to give any desired pose to the form A. It will also benoticed that when the desired pose is reached, the body A is held in this position without requiring further action on the part of the operator. When the screw rod 0 is screwed downward by the operator, the upper portion A of the body A swings rearwardly while the lower portion A swings forwardly, thus permitting the operator to adjust the body A to assume an erect position, if desired, or even a backwardly tilted position, if deemed necessary for properly displaying a garment.

It is expressly understood that in whatever position the body A is adjusted, it re mains locked in this position.

A guideway A is arranged at the bottom of the lower portion A and through this guideway A extends the post B, so as to guide the lower portion A of the body A in a transverse swinging movement and to hold the lower portion A against sidewise movement.

The adjusting device shown and described is very simple and durable in construction and can be easily manipulated by the operator, to give the desired pose to the body A of the garment form.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A garment form, comprising a stand, a body, a pivot connecting the said stand and body for the latter to swing transversely, a screw rod, a swing arm pivoted on the said 15 body and in which the free end of the screw rod is mounted to turn, and a nut fixed on the said stand and in which screws the said screw rod.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 20 name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMIL THEODORE PALMENBERG.

WVitnesses A. C. Ponrnons, TM. L. ALLAN. 

